Years of Experience at Ankerbräu Nördlingen

At Ankerbräu in Nördlingen (Bavaria) the development of the beer-in-box system and the related technology took place. Ankerbräu uses the concept to increase their beer sales in the long distance and export business segment since 2009.

At the end of 2014 Florian Koch, the former Ankerbrau manager quit the brewery job and since this time is fully focused on the Carbotek business and technology development.

It all started in the hot summer of 2003. Ankerbräu in Nördlingen run out of kegs due to a high seasonal peak demand for its keg beers. In the subsequent analysis and discussion it became clear, how costly it is to purchase kegs to cover a seasonal peak demand only.

So the management team of Ankerbräu (Senior Wolfgang Koch, Junior Florian Koch and brewmaster Georg Fischer) started to look for alternatives and gave birth to the idea to develop a cost-effective disposable system for the keg and draft beer segment. It should become a long journey...

The development history of beer-in-box

2003

Idea (Trigger: Keg shortage during hot summer)

2004

First trials with postmix carbonation systems.

2006

Development of first Carbonator prototype. Purchase of Bag-In-Box filler.